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en o o en cj tn. o o o o o ESQ EX' O O O O Q OOO D 7,000 Enroll as Schools Open nun i r js n 11 n rn 1 1 11 a ii MUNDBD 1651 NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR 12 PAGES Tho Orocjon Stcdaancrn, Salom. Ore.. Tuesday. Sept 16. 1947 Pric 5c Now 147 - - nnsnn, r&s. aasIM r . i o in o .1 Igfl yips i1 tchMl opeoinrs Mondar WmcU Mg aad ssnaJl vrcblcM, tMaf them where to awt ona'a cmU -or Inch. Getting- slated with new rMa faculties at Garfield scheot as pic tared at left a bore, arc second trader (left to right) Lois Oar doer, 4 It Evergreen are.; Iris Norman, Salem rent 5; Larry FendergasL Robert a venae, and Ceell Newton, 112 Everjxeen ave. School opening also meant registering of new poplls, as shown at right above, where Mrs, Hoyte Sadler, lOf Abraaw sire, -(seated, eeaier) registers her son Donald, , (right) at Garfield's first grade. Standing Is teacher Mrs. Lillian Cart, fit Mill si. (Photos br Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) tPCDOXlCE The dally papers have picked tip and republished a paragraph from Sidney Shalett The Re turn of Herbert Hoover" in the current American. Here It Is fain: "Hoover still docs not believe It was necessary for the United States to enter the war. -My theory; he said, 'Is that, If we had kept out of the Imme diate conflict, we could have put our cword down on the table. with our economic resources intact, and made a decent peace when the time for : peacemaking came. I never believed that Britain was In. danger cf defeat When Ger many attacked Russia, it made a British victory possible. And we never would have been attacked by the Japanese if we had not given them provocation."' In my opinion that contains about as many errors of judg ment as there are sentences. The surprising thing is that President Hoover, who I never voiced such sentiments in 1941, should ex press them now. Surely there la little to vindicate his opinion, i Britain was In grave danger of defeat and would .have been vir tually starved, out by'' U-boats if this country had not extended aid prior to entering the war, and after. The British would not have been able to mount an .Invasion cf the continent unless Russia had first thoroughly beaten , the German armies. As for our' pro voking Japan into (Continued on editorial page) Double Margin In Grain Mart Asked by U. S. WASHINGTON, Sept. SMJ?h Eetklng to lessen the danger of a "boom-and-bust situation" in tho nation's grain i markets, the gov ernment tonight requested that speculators be required to put up twice as muthf cash as -they now do. i Doubling of the margin the trader now posts in contracts for future delivery of grain was asked by J. M. Men, administrator of the agriculture; department's com modity exchange authority. The money 4 posted by traders constitutes an: initial part pay ment and the grain futures con tract can be sold again without putting up more cash. The commodity futures mar kets at Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis were asked to re quire an initial margin of 13 V4 per cent on all speculative tran sactions in all grains. HEALER TO JOURNEY LOS ANGELES, Sept li-Xy-Hvak. Armenian faith healer brought to the United States six months ago by Kikor Arakelian, wealthy California vintner, to treat his epileptic son, will make tour of 34 states and three Can adian provinces next month, it was announced today. Animal Crackers - By WARREN GOODRICH - f1KN0W what tarn you got in last night, so dent try to wriggle out of MT Showers Due lere Today ScatierjM showers arc pre dicted la the Salem area today as rising 1 humidity throughout most of Oregon Monday brongbt forecasts that forest fire dan gers weald be eased consider ably except In southern Ore gon. . ... The humidity plummeted to a low of IS per cent at Siskiyou summit for the lowest In west ern portion of the state Monday and stood at t at Redmond, ac cording to Associated Press. CorvalM reported St per cent and Eugene 17. Slightly cooler temperatures tonight will ease the situation, the forest service reported. Pupils Crowded InWoodbura's Class Rooms WOODBURN, Sept 15 With 86 pupils crowded Into two class rooms under -direction of two teachers, Dr. Robert L. Lantx, su perintendent of Woodburn schools, faced the problem of get ting additional teachers for an es timated one-third increase of pu pils who reported for class, work today. -. ' Woodburn - wai consolidated with several adjoining districts last spring, and these pupils are all being brought into Woodburn schools. No figures wero available on the high school enrollment but Washington junior high school had 147 enrolled as compared to 79 last year. This figure was not comparable, however, since sixth gride pupils were at Washington school today, and had not been last year.. ... : Lincoln grade school's smallest class was the second grade, where only 44 r were - enrolled.' Othef grade figures- ore as " follows: 1st, 47; 3rd, 48; 4th, 49; and 9th, 47. The first three grades had two teachers each, but 4th and 9th grades were In charge of one teacher each. Following the consolidation, it is expected the school census this fall will give Woodburn a first class district rating, the third in Marlon county. Taf t Demands U.N. Action LOS ANGELES, Sept lS.-tAV Confrontod with a crisis in Greece, the United Nations must quickly revise its charter to de fine aggression and take action against . aggressors - -Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told a news con ference today. "Some International law must be . written, and immediately," Taft said. . They have gone about this thing completely backward. They created a police force first, before they had any law for it to enforce.- ! Taft called for limitation on the use of the veto In the security council, and said, "If the United States is going to submit Its basic rights to international action, that action has to bo based on judicial procedure.' In one of the strongest criti cisms yet levelled against the United Nations, the Ohio senator said-the security council was not a judiciary body. Mrs. Patterson Named to Post . Gov. Earl Snell announced Monday the appointment of Mrs. Georgia B. Patterson, Hillsboroi as a member of the state board of education to succeed Mrs. C. W. Robison, Portland, who has re signed to accept a position in the Portland schools. Mrs. Patterson represents home interests on the board and will serve for the unexpired term end ing January 1, 1948. Mrs. Patterson, wife of State Sen,. .Paul Patterson, graduated from , the University of Oregon In 1924 and later served as assistant dean of women at the university. Now vice president of the Alum ni association, she has been state committee: chairman for the Parent-Teachers association and has been active in the League of Women Voters and the American Legion auxiliary. . Attendance Up; 6,232 in Public; 783 Parochial Just over 7.000 Salem area boys and girls were back at school Monday as fall terms opened for 22 schools of the .public Salem district and the local Catholic parishes. First-day attendance as tabula ted by school officials showed 783 pupils enrolled in the three Catholic schools and 0,232 in tho public schools --873 of the latter group in eight outlying schools consolidated last spring with Sa lem school district 24. Public schools gained 226 pu pils over last year's first-day at tendance, plus the 873 In the out lying schools new to the district Catholic enrollment, nearly ,' 10 per cent over last year's 721, was at capacity for each of the three schools, it was reported. For all schools, public and pri vate, the over-all enrollment gain amounted to approximately 20 per cent but much of the gain was acocunted for by addition of seven districts to the Salem district.- . School leaders expected . en rollment to fluctuate in the early weeks of the new school year, with late registration and shifts within the school system to equa lize the effect of higher enroll ment on individual schools capacities.'',;-- - : :'' - ... : ; Salem high school opened the year with 1,973 students, as against last year's 1,998 on open ing day. Leslie junior high had 614 pupils, 102, more than last year, and Parrish showed about the same population with 856. As a new school in the system, West Salem junior high opened with 123 students. The 13 grade schools of the school district Monday showed tho following registration of stu dents In all six grades: Bush, 499; Englewood, 432; Highland, 368; McKlnley,, 284; Richmond. 237; West Salem. 247: Garfield. 180: Grant,' 172; Washington, 184; Lib erty, ui; Auburn, loo; Swegie, 04; Pringle, 75.' Rickey. 52: Middle Grove, 81. - Tobin Demands Use of NLRB INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 13 -VP) Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) announced to night that he has signed the non communist affidavit required by the Taft-Hartley law and planned court action If necessary for the right to use services of the nation al labor relations board. The recent action by John L. Lewis, head of the powerful Unit ed . Mine Workers in blocking. signing of the affidavit by the American Federation of Labor general executive council, would bar all AFL unions from appeal ing to the NLRBmnder a ruling by Robert Denham, attorney for the board. Drill Saves Pupils As Roof Collapses I MIDVALE, Utah, Sept. JS-tf3) The roof on the West Jordan Junior high school collapsed this afternoon less than five minutes after an alert teacher had no ticed It sagging and sounded a fire drill alarm. Nearly 400 students marched to safety and were standing in the school yard when the roof fell in. None was hurt. Salem Library Grows; Continuing its trend of fast ex pansion in a fast-growing - city, Salem public j library during the past fiscal ' year bought more books, loaned more books and had more books on its shelves than ever before. Hugh Morrow, city librarian, in his annual report to the Sa lem public library board Monday night revealed that from July 1, 1946, to June SO, 1947, the library added a record 1,768 books by purchase and 116 more through donations. This, he said, swelled the library's total num ber to a peak 51,401, an 11 per cent increase over the previous year. An extra 354 pamphlets, maps, pictures and phonograph records were added, he said bringing the number of items in this depart ment to 'an all-time high of 2,122. Arabs Warn of War; . Balkans on Agenda NEW YORK, Sept. 13-lA3)-A warning of war In the middle east if a Jewish state is created in Palestine came tonight from the seven Arab league states on the eve tho second United Nations assmbly. This declaration pointed up sharply the -continuing opposition of the Arab countries to partition of the Holy Land, one of the proposed solutions of the Palestine puzzle on which the assembly must act. The assembly will convene to morrow at 11 a. m. (EJXT.) Musa Bel Alami, director of the Arab office. Issued a 2,000-word statement outlining tho cardinal points of the Arab arguments. The Arab office Is sponsored by five U. N. members, Egypt, Iraq, Le banon, Saudi Arabia and Syria, by the Yemen, soon to become a member, and by Transjordan, twice refused membership. LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 15-OP) Russia invoked the bij power ve to twice tonight to block United States efforts to shift the Balkan problem to the 35-member Unit ed Nations assembly but the way for assembly action was cleared by another American move which was approved despite soviet oppo sition. The United States had put up a strenuous, fight to take the case to the assembly without removing it from the council's agenda. This would have permitted continua tion of the subsidiary watch group of tho Balkan investigating com mission 1 the U. N.'s only direct link with the Balkan situation. This plan, however, , was ve toed. Herschel V. Johnson, deputy U. S. delegate, then took the only step left and proposed that the council drop the case from its calendar. This was not subject to the veto and was approved, by a vote of 9 to 2, with Russia and Poland voting against it. Today's vetoes ran Russia's string in the security council to 20. ! ' The first veto was on the U S. proposal itself and tho second was on an effort by Johnson to haVe the council override Russia's con tention that tho veto was appli cable on the American resolution- County Schools Get $423,699 Of Basic Fund Marion county school : districts Friday received $423,699.35 as their share of $7,652,133.86, first allotment from the $16,000,000 basic school support fund, mailed to 1,530 Oregon schools Monday by Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr. . Salem district 24 will receive $178,934.74 as its share of the Marion county allotment Distri bution of the second half of the fund will be made March 15, Far rell said. The basic school support fund was approved by the voters at the last general election and its dis tribution features set up by the 1947 legislature. Rex Putnam, superintendent of public Instruction, said every school district in the state will share in the first distribution of the fund, but advised that va rious districts will have to meet certain standards before they may qualify for ensuing payments from the fund. The standards, he asserted, would not work a hardship on any of the school districts. Weather Max. SS so 7 .. 68 .. 88 Mln. Preclp. 47 M 4 .00 M .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York tl .00 73 J6 Willamette river -3.7 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem): Partly cloudy today snd tonight with one or two widely scattered ihowera. Hlfh temperature today near 78; low near 50. Weather will be favorable for moat farm activities today except for some winds in tho afternoon. The library also withdrew from circulation 594 books most of them worn out. Borrowers Increase Book borrowers, who increased by 4,350 the past year to a total of 11,296, borrowed 151,061 books from the library. Although about 70 per cent of the library's new purchases last year were in the non-fiction field, 'Librarian 'Mor row estimated that fiction has a slight edge over fact in actual borrowing by patrons. "Wo still don't have enough books for a city of this size," Mor row said. "According to : library standards we should average lr to 2 books per resident, or about 20,000 more in our case, although the city library last year borrowed 3,363 from the state library. Gifts Keeeived The library's service Includes Japan Typhoon Deaths Many; Florida Warned TOKYO. Sept. t-JV)- Japan ese reports said today that 1,900 persons were dead or missing and more than 40,000 homes awash in typhoon - born waters flood ing the rich flatlands north of Tokyo. Confirming figures were lack ing, but one military government official said 150 Japanese were dead in Gumma prefecture alone and the toll was increasing. No allied casualties were re ported as flood waters spread across a 200-mile wide area, ruin ing sorely - needed crops. Dis rupted communications limited accurate reports and hampered re lief work. MIAMI, FLA., Sept 15 P) A long stretch of the east coast from Florida to North Carolina was officially alerted and warned tonight to expect high tides and heavy seas with increasing winds offshore as a great hurricane ap proached. Storm warnings were flying in the Bahamas and the tropical dis turbance at 5 p. m. was 300 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla... its 140 mile winds only a little more than 24 hours away from the mainland. A northward curvature was in dicated for tomorrow, but storm warning experts said that unless the change in course develops. Hurricane warnings for a part of the alerted area are a possibility. Filbert Price Lrevel Drops PORTLAND, Sept. IS.--The Northwest Nut Growers asiiocia tion today announced opening prices for this year's crop of Oregon-Washington filberts would be about three cents a pound under the 1946 level. George Cadwell, association president, said the prices would promote early marketing of most of the crop, preventing a large carryover, as last year. It also was noted that filbert prices were a: cent less than pea nuts, which observers said was unprecedented. It may lead to in creased use of filberts in mix tures, they said. Prices, f. o. b. in 100-pound bag lots: i Barcelons, . jumbo, 25 cents a pound; large, 23 cents; medium 21 cents; small, 18 cents. Duchilly - -Jumbo, 24 cents. Brixnuts - - jum bev 25 cents. Police Probe Death In Portland Yards ' PORTLAND, Sept 15-0P)-The body of Herbert Lyle Asplin, 38, was found on a railroad track In freight yards here today. He had come here recently from Appleton, Wis., to become man ager of the Western Condensing Co. Police said he had been run over by a train. They opened an investigation. LE GAIXIENNE DIE.S MENTON, ' France, Sept. 15-) -Richard Le Gallienne, 81, noted English poet, essayist, novelist and Journalist, died in his sleep last night in the villa where he had lived for many years. Book Circulation Faster not only reading material for Sa lem residents, but also supply ing of hundreds of books to pub lic schools. The past year, Mor row said, marked the third straight year that the library has received outstanding memorial book gifts. During the year the library's principal gifts included a set of books on music. Outside of the 25 to 40 per cent increase in price, books over the past two years have not increased much in quality. Morrow said. "War books" are continuing to drop in interest, with the excep tion of a recent trend of well-re-ceived accounts of battles, armies and commanders. The recent goings and comings on the political scene have not so far been reflected In reader in terest for things political, Morrow Brewster Asks Cut In Export WASHINGTON. Sept 13, UP) Two administraUon officials called on Americana today to eat less in order to help feed Europe, but Senator Brewster (R-ME) urged that food shipments be curbed to check the high cost of at home. Brewster agreed with the others. Secretary of Commerce Avereil liarriman and Undersec retfiy of Agriculture Norris E. Dodd that there should bo vol untary food rationing. Hani man and Dodd, however, advanced the proposal primarily as a means of getUng more food to bolster western Europe against Communism. Fears For Prices Brewster's call for voluntary rationing was pegged to his ex pressed belief that continuation of last year's rate of exports would send prices to U. S. consumers "out of sight". He also advocated curbing li quor production to save grain, prohibit "speculative hoarding' and restricting tho milling of flour. Brewster said the amount of any cut in exports should be left up to the presidential commission now studying the extent of the United States' ability to help Europe. Harriman is working with this group. U. S. Consumption High The Agriculture Deparment re ported today that since July 1 it has2 bought 91,435,000 bushels of wheat and 052,631,000 pounds of flour for shortage areas abroad. Harriman and Dodd took the view that voluntary food ration ing In the United States would be no hardship. Both figured that the average American is eating more livestock products meat, milk, butter, eggs and poultry than before the war. Harriman said meat consumption is running 25 per cent higher. Curtis Joins OC Enterprise OREGON CITY, ORE., Sept. 15 CP)- Walttr W. R. May, editor and publisher of the Oregon City Enterprise, announced today that Ralph C: Curtis, former managing editor of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, has purchased an interest in the daily newspaper here .and will be associated in its operation as assistant publisher. . After leaving Salem, Curtis was owner of the Ontario, Ore-, Ar gus and was recently associated with the Salt Lake City, Utah, Tribune. EldenAllerdege, business man ager, and Pete Laurs, managing editor, will participate In the ownership of the Enterprise through stock purchase. New Highway Section Ready by October 1 The Steiwer hill section of the Pacific highway in Marion and Linn counties will be opened to traffic by October 1, state high way department officials predicted Monday. The new 10-mile section, im mediately north of Albany, will eliminate a number of dangerous curves and speed up traffic. pouo aids .Shipped . PORTLANDS Sept. 15-y!P-The Multnomah county infantile pari alysis chapter has shipped three hot pack machines for polio treat ment to Boise, Idaho, hospitals, Chairman Aaron M. Frank re ported tonight. said. Books dealing with general world conditions are also, for the most part, absent from the li brary's shelves, although many requests for such material are received. New Furnace la Notable achievements during the year. Morrow said, were the establishment here of .the Great Books discussion program, in stallation of a $1,300 oil furnace (after 35 years of firing with wood and sawdust) and the re tirement of Edwin Palmer, jan itor, after 19 years of service. Total expenditures of the year came to $23,574, about $5,000 more than the previous year. Of that $13,655 went to pay salaries of nine staff members, $3,000 for new books and $570 for periodi cals and pamphlet subscriptions. Fire Destroys OSC Beef Barn; Cattle Saved CORVA1XIS. Ore, Sept. If. -CrVFlre destroyed tho beef bans of the Oregon State col lege farm toalgbt and arrieal tore school officials sold Boost of tho ralaabie anlssalo la tho 35 - year - eld frame stmctare were saved. Flame wero discovered a boot 11 p. aw aad by tho tin firemen arrived the entire structure Mia engulfed la fire. The blase was believed to have , started la the hay mow. The building was located en the west edge of the eampos. About 2S head of college cat tle were In the barn. Some of them may have been lost, offi cials said. Protests Hit Oxbow Power Dam Project Protests by two federal agencies, tho state grange and tho state highway commission wero regis tered again the Idaho Power com pany's preliminary application to construct a $25,000,000 power proj ect on the Oxbow site on the Snake river In Baker county, at a state hydroelectric commission public hearing here Monday. The most vigorous protest was made by Secretary of tho Interior Julius A. Krug, who urged that the application be denied because it would conflict with interior de partment plans for power develop ment on the Snake river. CoL O. E. Walsh, Portland dis trict army engineer, wrote that the Oxbow project would- conflict with tho proposed i Hell's canyon power development, for which en gineers are now making prelim inary surveys.' Walsh said the Hell's canyon dam would back up the river and flood the Oxbow plant. The grange, through Its attorney Ray Kell, Portland, requested that the power company, if granted the permit, relinquish all claims to water rights which aro prior to filing, of the application. He also requested that the company be prohibited from seeking damages if the Hell's canyon dam floods the Oxbow site. Kell said the grange favored the Hell's cony on project because it would generate 10 times as much power as the pro posed Oxbow dam. The highway commission, through its attorney J. L. Devers, asked for protection of tho Baker Homestead highway which would be inundated by the Oxbow pro ject. Arne Suomela, master fish warden, asked that adequate fish ladders be built Into the dam. C. J. Strike, Portland, repre senting the power company, said his company had made plans to do everything possible not to Injure any interest by construction of the dam. He assured the highway commission steps would be, taken to protect the road and said the dam would be equipped with the most modern fish ladders. - - l j Youth Charged, Killing of Pal HARRISON, N-J, Sept 15-OT) A murder complaint was filed against 14-year-old Fred -Walter Smigelski today, a few hours af ter the Sullen youth calmly re enacted for police the kidnap slaying of his 11-year-old pal in an abandoned warehouse. Detective Captain Arthur Ford signed the formal charge against the Newark boy, who last night signed a confession for the FBI admitting he strangled John Pres ton, jr., of Kearny with a leather belt to prove to himself that he was no sissy . The FBI said Smigelski said he wanted to show he was superior because his- mother made him wash dishes. The parochial school student will be arraigned tomorrow morn ing before Police Magistrate Jo seph Gallagher. 9 Die in Crasli;t 'Chute Saves One ABERDEEN, Md Sept 15-PV-Capt. Charles W. Warmack, 25, of Paris, Tenn., parachuted to safety today to become the only known iurvivor of 10 men aboard a B-17 bomber which exploded and sank in Bush river. V Aberdeen proving ground offi cials said the plane was carrying seven other military personnel and two civilian observers. All were identified as being from the east a "I National Probes PORTLAND, Sept l-(VThe price of eggs will lump one and two cent! dozen here again to morrow and trade source reported butter may go higher this week and that dairymen are thinking of asking for a .one to three-cents a-quart increase for milk. Medium size grade A eggs will go up two cents a doien and grade AA large one cent to make tho price range to retailers from 12 cents a dozen for grade A small to 78 cent for grade AA large. A federal market report said that local butter trade spokesmen favor higher prices, possibly by mid-week. Talk of higher price for milk, center around plan of the depart ment of agriculture to hold a new milk board hearing later this month to consider revision of the price order of June L i Feed Prlrea Climb - Dairymen cite a $13 a "ton boost in tho price of dairy feed sine tho April milk board hearing; and dis tributors said milk was shifting to creameries and to cheese manufac turers because of higher prices of fered for fluid milk by processors. Grade A 4 per cent milk tho cus tomary consumer grade now sella at 17 cents a quart in the Portland area. , - :. j" By The Associated Press Food, price continued their diz zy upward spiral Monday a gov ernment official, legislators and food experts proposed varying remedies ranging from voluntary rationing to imposition of wartime controls, or a combination of both. In Chicago, 42 companies, indi viduals and associations in the meat Industry were subpoenaed to appear before a special federal, grand Jury which will begin a price- investigation Sept 22. The inquiry was part of a nationwide justice department investigation to determine IX conspiracies exist to produce high prlrea. I I Fablle Urged to Aid' At the same time, Attorney Gen eral Tom Clark, in j Washington, was reported to have directed US. attorneys to start their own cam paigns against any illegal price fixing agreements which force prices upward in their diitricts. He urged the public to bring to the attention of VS. attorneys "any information indicating price fix ing in the food, clothing and hous ing fields." i Grains again advanced sharply on the Chicago board of trade, with wheat jumping as much as 10 cent a bushel, tho daily limit Corn set a new'record high for the 99-year history of the board, j' Also In Chicago, a new top price for the season was paid in tho cat tle market, as weighty steers com manded $35.60, the most since Dec. 4 and S when the top was $38. Oth er grades and classes of beef wero steady to 25 cents lower, hov ever. Hogs were steady to 23 cen.s higher, but slaughter Lambs wire 50 to 75 cents lower.: .t Louis Milk Up Butter and egg futures on. the Chicago mercantile exchange xvvt-e firm. With eggs up 44 to t V rents a dozen and butter up 33 to 1 cents a pound. October eggs were quoted at 56.83 to 56.95 cents a dozen and November butter at 74.10 to 74.23 cents a Dound. Two major St LouiJ dairies an nounced milk prices there woe 'M Jump another penny Tuesday, v ith grade A selling at 21H cents a quart and homogenized grade A at 224. Britain Sells From Reserv es LONDON, Sept lS-fjyBrit-t ain sold $80,000,000 worth of her "last ditch" gold reserves today to, buy vitally needed supplies in the United States. The dip Into the Bank of Eng land's basic bullion reserve the first since before the outbreak of war in 1939 was announced by the British treasury as U. S. Treasury Secretary John W. Sny der told a news conference that emergency help for war-damaged Europe may be necessary before the Marshall plan to aid Europe begins. The gold, part of tho nation' estimated 600,000,000 pounds ($2, 400,000,000) reserve, was sold to the Federal Reserve bank of New York,, the treasury announcement said. .) COLLISION SINKS TUG PORTLAND, Sept lS--A collision last night sunk the tug boat W. E. Mahoney In the Co lumbia river at Sauvies island. Two men aboard the tug were rescued unhurt The steamship Anna Howard Shaw was' not damaged- Underway i